(CNN) President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to reassert the United States' leadership role on the global stage through a series of day-one executive actions that would mark a drastic turn from outgoing President Donald Trump's policies. Now that Biden has defeated Trump, his transition team is beginning to turn his campaign-trail promises into plans he can implement early in his presidency. He is also poised to enact a series of executive actions that would undo many of Trump's foreign policy actions and seek to rapidly return the United States to its status at the end of former President Barack Obama's administration four years earlier. Asked about the actions Biden will take on his first day in office, Biden campaign adviser Symone Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that the President-elect is "going to make good on his promises" made on the campaign trail. Both actions underscore a major difference between Biden and Trump: Biden has long believed in the multilateral organizations and pacts that Trump distrusts.

Source: CNN November 08, 2020 18:11 UTC